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- From: erwin@helsinki.ks.uiuc.edu (Edgar Erwin)
- Subject: Re: FYI: Lovely Music....
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 21:21:10 GMT
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- Barry Grant writes
- >
- > Since buying Perfect Lives on the recommendation of Fanfare, I've tried to
- > buy everything on CD of Ashley.
-
- Are you talking about the old recording of two extracts from _Perfect Lives_
- with just Blue Jean on piano and Ashley reading a monologue, or has there been
- a complete recording?
-
- > I've listened to Improvement a couple
- > of times. It's not as wonderful as Perfect Lives. It's "stiffer" and the
- > music is not as hypnotic.
-
- OK, but how about a few basic facts, if you don't mind. Is this also Blue Jean
- on piano, or do we get different instruments? Was this an opera intended for
- the stage, or another one for TV? Do the words tell a story in the
- conventional sense, or is it like PL, in that the words paint pictures, still
- lives, so to speak?
-
- Ed erwin@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu
-